Mike Finnegan Runs His Best Pass Ever in Blasphemi at Drag Week

Last year at Drag Week, Mike Finnegan and co-driver Daniel Boshears dropped a valve grenading the engine in his 1955 Chevy Gasser on only the second day of competition, leaving them dead in the water. This year has been an entirely different story, and they just laid down their best pass ever with 9.007 at 151.14 mph! After a couple of years and abusive amounts of frustration, it’s great to see these guys getting their program together and getting this car down the strip in an orderly fashion. Maybe we’ll see that elusive eight second pass from them by the end of the week.

Mike warms up the tires before his first run in Atlanta as the side pipes push the billowing white smoke away from the car making for a very cool effect.

Over the first two days of competition, Finnegan ran a 9.399 and a 9.422, which means he shaved almost a full four tenths off of his best elapsed time for the week. His two day average had him in second place in the A/gas class sitting at 9.411 behind Jarrad Scott’s 9.026 average, meaning he was only 0.385 seconds out of first place in his class. Finnegan was assisted by fellow competitor Eric Yost of Customs by Bigun, who helped them change the coils, trim the shock mounts a bit, adjust nearly every bar in the suspension, and give the chassis a tune up until about 3:00 in the morning. All this work resulted in the best pass ever in the car and should help him close in on the class leader over the next couple days.

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Before heading out to drive the route, the guys swap out the Halibrands and slicks for some chrome steelies and wide whites with street tires and pile all the extra stuff onto a rack that slides into the trailer hitch receiver.

There are still two days left of driving and racing, so anything can happen, but Finnegan has put himself in a great spot going into the tail end of the torture test that is Drag Week. Blasphemi seems to be more dialed than ever, and that blown Hemi under the hood shows no signs of slowing down. We’ll be sure to keep you updated as time goes on so be sure to stay tuned to HOTROD.com, and check out the full gallery below.

The blown all-aluminum 528ci Hemi in Blasphemi makes approximately 950 wheel horsepower when sent through the G Force five-speed transmission to the 29.5” slicks.On the street, Blasphemi wears her “Going out shoes,” as Mike calls it, and we really like the look on this rowdy machine.Before making his runs, Finnegan is laser focused and clad in every bit of his safety gear running over the checklist of things he needs to do to get the car from one end to the other safely.

Mike warms up the tires before his first run in Atlanta as the side pipes push the billowing white smoke away from the car making for a very cool effect.

Before heading out to drive the route, the guys swap out the Halibrands and slicks for some chrome steelies and wide whites with street tires and pile all the extra stuff onto a rack that slides into the trailer hitch receiver.

The blown all-aluminum 528ci Hemi in Blasphemi makes approximately 950 wheel horsepower when sent through the G Force five-speed transmission to the 29.5” slicks.

On the street, Blasphemi wears her “Going out shoes,” as Mike calls it, and we really like the look on this rowdy machine.

Before making his runs, Finnegan is laser focused and clad in every bit of his safety gear running over the checklist of things he needs to do to get the car from one end to the other safely.